A History of East Grinstead Target Shooting Club
Katie Kettle has written as blog about the history of EG Target Shooting Club which is published on their website. She gives us a permission to reproduce it for our blog. http://egtsc.co.uk/page/history Charlie Beard, founder member, Vice-Chairman, and head of the project to build the East Court clubhouse – overlooking
The Hucknall Estate, Excerpt From an Article by David Gould
The Hucknall Estate, a small corner of East Grinstead, tucked away behind the railway station, was an investment of coal merchant William Best, who transported coal from Hucknall near Nottingham. It consists of Grosvenor, Crescent & part of Park Roads. Best bought Killick’s, or Copyhold, Farm, whose land had stretched
The Union Workhouse in East Grinstead
Workhouses, in existence since the sixteenth century, were designed to accommodate able bodied paupers, who were expected to work at menial (and usually pointless) tasks, in return for food and accommodation. However, it was increasingly the elderly and disabled who were admitted, along with people who were injured or ill,
THE EAST GRINSTEAD SUFFRAGISTS
Muriel, Countess de la Warr Lady Indina Sackville In a May 1911 survey, eight out of ten women in East Grinstead said that they preferred not to have the vote! This view of women’s suffrage echoed prevailing opinion
Ye Dorset Arms at East Grinstead
What’s in a name? Previously The Newe Inn, The Ounce, and The Cat, The Dorset Arms has been an inn for over 500 years. There was a building on the site from much earlier times, demonstrated by the long portland behind, and what commendable foresight the medieval town planners showed
EAST GRINSTEAD HIGH STREET
Image 1. East Grinstead was founded in medieval times. The broad High Street was designed as a market place, lined on either side by long narrow strips called ‘portlands’, each about 200 metres, or one furlong in length. (Ah, the rods, chains and furlongs of my youth, so diligently learned,
The Forgotten Story of Benjamin Rycroft
Whilst many people are familiar with the work of Archibald McIndoe within the field of plastic surgery, few people are aware of part that East Grinstead plays within the history of eye surgery, especially with the setting up of eye banks. Rycroft Arrives The most important person behind this story
MY HOUSE, IN THE MIDDLE OF MY STREET ….
Museum volunteer and local resident Loral Bennett uses the Museum archives to look at the history of 85 West Street At one time, West Street was known as Chapel Lane, as it led to the town cemetery chapel, with its separate areas for the established church worshippers and dissenters. Until
Military Nurses Visit East Grinstead Museum
On Wednesday 19th of July, East Grinstead Museum welcomed 8 Military Nurses from both the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead and Birmingham for a tour of the Rebuilding Bodies and Souls exhibition. The Military Nurses held a fund raising event at the Queen Victoria Hospital and kindly donated half the funds
A Good Read for the Summer…..
East Grinstead Museum’s exhibition ‘Rebuilding Bodies & Souls’ tells the story of Sir Archibald McIndoe, world-famous plastic surgeon, and his pioneering work on the young airmen who were shot down & badly burned during WW2. They knew that they were his ‘guinea pigs’, and so the infamous ‘Guinea Pig Club’